Re: [PATCH] DRM: Armada: fixup wait_event_timeout being ignored

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Wed Jun 10 2015 - 07:23:03 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 01:07:08PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> The calling side seems to assume 0 as success and <0 as error so
> returning -ETIME should be fine here.

The idea here is to allow the remainder of the code to execute when
the condition succeeds _or_ times out. If it times out, that is
not a failure - it merely means that the display has been blanked
and we're not seeing frame done interrupts anymore.

The code should not be checking the returned value at all - in fact
I have updates to this code which (in part) remove this, and fix a
glaring problem that the wait queue is never woken.

I wonder how many places you've made this same mistake... please
ensure that you review the code you're changing carefully.

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